“I have faith in my star,” a young Winston Churchill wrote to his mother in 1897, “that I am intended to do something in the world.” He had only just arrived in India as part of the British effort to ...
“Three days after the attack on the armored train, Churchill arrived in Pretoria, the Boer capital, with the other British prisoners of war. Surrounded by curious Boers eager to see the new prisoners, ...
Kevin Raftery had concerns that the historic plaque would decay with the building A commemorative plaque to Staffordshire soldiers who fought in the Boer Wars has been saved from Hanley Town Hall. The ...
Recently, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the migrant detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border concentration camps. Her comments triggered a whole debate about when and how that term ...
MAGERSFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters Life) - Springboks bound amongst the thorn bushes of Magersfontein during a sun-filled South African day. But local people say that the night belongs to the ghosts ...
A regiment of British troopers moves forward in "battle" during the 10th annual Grand Victorian Tactical weekend in Ringwood State Park on July 24. This living history event transformed the grounds of ...
Sir William Penn Symons (pictured) would have been "bemused" by all the "fuss", a descendant said A ceremony has taken place in Cornwall to mark the 125th anniversary of the death of a forgotten ...
A book containing photographs and information of 51 soldiers and three civilians from the Morwell district who participated in the Boer War will be launched on Wednesday at the Morwell RSL. Morwell ...
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